In September 2024 Mathias organized an afternoon on designing and building with wood in the creative makers’ space De Hoop in Zaandam.

Pioneer Jaco Woltjer of Woltjer Berkhout architects and Eric Thijssen of Mark Koehler Architects introduced the basic facts about wood, but also discussed construction, process and scaling up this sustainable building material in the current practice of architects, housing corporations and developers.

This event was part of the Program for the Knowledge of Space Mathias has been organizing with colleagues at Zaanstad Municipality since 2022, and co organized with urbanist Marc den Hertog who also made the picture in this post.